A cross-party group of MPs has been accused of 'feathering their own nests' by fighting a move to guarantee their pension contributions increase in line with the rest of the public sector... more
MPs must not shy away from debating the restoration of the death penalty if a groundswell of voters backs a petition demanding it, the Commons leader has said... more
The Government was today considering severing advertising links with the News of the World after claims that an investigator may have hacked into the phones of the grieving families of dead soldiers ... more
Ministers have been accused of being 'sloppy and incompetent' after figures revealed they are having to correct themselves more than once a week... more
Commons members go to war with their spending watchdog after it revealed MPs were paid more than £3.1 million in expenses in the four months after the general election... more
London MP is pressing for a Commons debate on research that shows black people are 26 times more likely to be stopped and searched by the police... more
Peace protesters camping outside the Houses of Parliament claimed they had a legal right to be there and MPs were 'confusing' themselves with promises to remove the camp... more
Commons Leader Sir George Young said he was 'seriously concerned' about the operation of Parliament's new expenses system amid a flurry of complaints from MPs... more
David Cameron was rocked by a fresh sleaze scandal when two senior Conservative MPs were found to have breached rules on taxpayer-funded second homes... more